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" against Pharaoh. With 2,500 horses they rushed on Pharaoh's 

 ' flaming countenance, but he dashed them down and killed them 

 " where they stood. Pharaoh rallied his warriors by his acts of 

 "valour. He cheered his charioteer, almost dead with fear. Six 

 " times he charged the unclean wretches who did not acknowledge 

 " his God. He killed them ; none escaped. Then Pharaoh upbraids 

 " his worthless warriers, not one of whom stood by him, and calls 

 " the foreigners to witness that his own right hand had won the 

 "battle." After this the Hittites seek peace, and the Egyptians im- 

 plore their King to grant it. Pharaoh mercifully grants it, returning to 

 Egypt in the best humour, and resting in his palace like the sun on 

 his throne. 



The results of the treaty of peace entered into at this time were 

 all that could be desired. Dynastic alliances sprang out of the state 

 treaties, the most kindly feeling resulted, and love tokens passed 

 between the old rivals and foes. If Mineptah II. is the King of the 

 Exodus, as Brugsch affirms, then he showed a better side to the 

 Hittites than he did to the Israelites, for he sent wheat in ships to 

 preserve the lives of the Hittites. But a hundred years later the old 

 war spirit revives, and Egypt and the Hittites have each other by the 

 throat. Rameses III. in a great naval engagement near Migdol, at 

 the mouth of the Nile, crushed the forces opposed to him, taking 

 the King of the Hittites prisoner. 



Dr. Wright thus sums up the story of the Hittites as looked at 

 in the light of their connection with Egypt: — "We see the Hittite 

 " Kings the rivals of the Pharaohs in peace and war from the twelfth to 

 " the twentieth dynasty. The shock of Egyptian invasion exhausted 

 " itself against the frontier cities of Kadesh and Carchemish, but the 

 " mighty empire of the Hittites extended beyond, on the broad 

 " plains and highlands of Asia Minor, and so there were always fresh 

 " Hittite armies, and abundance of Hittite wealth, to enable the 

 " Hittite empire to withstand the might of Egypt for a thousand 

 "years." 



Having seen the relation of Egypt to the Hittites, let us now 

 consider the relation of Assyria to the lost Empire. 



If the decipherment of the astrological tablets of Sargon of 

 Agane is to be depended on, the Hittites were a powerful nation in 

 the nineteenth century, B. C. Indeed Mr. Pinches, of the British 



